"Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part."

Our services

Collaboratives Processes provides training, facilitation, and mediation to stakeholders or organizations seeking to bring about change.

Responsive systems

[To respond to current challenges] we need systems that can self reorganize, that are better at sensing emerging disruption; that encourage cooperation rather than division; we need systems where a failure in one part of the system does not bring down every other part of the system. Andrew Zolli (2013)

Being adaptive

“Any procedure that is adaptive is, by definition, one that involves incomplete data.”

Physicist Edwin Jaynes

Hypothesis

Every statement should be taken by a scientist as a provisional hypothesis that has to be tested.

-Physicist Neils Bohr

Mistakes

Collaborating with others means that one must accept, from time to time, the mistakes or missteps of others. That is "Collaborative patience."

Attitude

When collaborative processes are approached with a positive attitude, progress automatically follows.

Analytic facilitation

To really help groups make decisions, one must go beyond "event facilitation" to a deeper role of assessing the decision architecture the group faces.

Consensus

Many multi-stakeholder processes seek consensus decision making. It can be wholly appropriate in some contexts, and difficult and unnecessary in other contexts.

Conflict within

Organizations are living systems in which conflict can arise due to scarce resources, structure, roles, communications and personality.

Organizational conflict

Conducting conflict assessments; Help turn from conflict avoidance to finding the value inherent in productive conflict;
Addressing inter or intra organizational conflict;
Mediating internal conflict; Assist in development of conflict management systems and
Assessing the health/function of networks or associations.

Facilitation

A Facilitator can do much more than drafting agenda, working with flip charts/pens and drafting meeting summary notes. We work to meet your specific facilitation needs – no cookie cutter approaches. Experience in environmental, water, construction, construction, commercial and organizational matters.

Mediation

When conflict escalates or when legal processes are likely/ongoing, mediation is sometimes appropriate. Our experience includes mediation in the topics of environment, environmental, natural resources, business, as well as litigation/court related mediations.

Conflict/situation assessments

Consultation, Capacity Development

We work with groups or organizations that want to increase their capacity to complete the tasks they have identified as their goals or vision. Drawing from recent work in the field, we define capacity as “the ability of a human system to perform its desired activities, sustain itself and self renew.”

Our work with diverse groups has included environmental and natural resource matters, developing strategic frameworks, creating action plans, developing governmental policy and improving working relationships. Collaborative Processes is a verified Veteran Owned Small Business